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Authors: Christina Courtenay
Christina is chairman of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. In 2011, Christina’s first novel
Trade Winds
was short listed for The Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Award for Best Historical Fiction. Her second novel,
The Scarlet Kimono
, won the Big Red Reads’ Best Historical Fiction Award. In 2012,
Highland Storms
won the Best Historical Romantic Novel of the year. And
The Silent Touch of Shadows
, Christina’s fourth novel, won the award for Best Historical Read at the Festival of Romance.
More from Christina Courtenay
Highland Storms
Sequel to Trade Winds
Winner of the 2012
Historical Romantic Novel of the Year Award
Who can you trust?
Betrayed by his brother and his childhood love, Brice Kinross needs a fresh start. So he welcomes the opportunity to leave Sweden for the Scottish Highlands to take over the family estate.
But there’s trouble afoot at Rosyth in 1754 and Brice finds himself unwelcome. The estate’s in ruin and money is disappearing. He discovers an ally in Marsaili Buchanan, the beautiful redheaded housekeeper, but can he trust her?
Marsaili is determined to build a good life. She works hard at being a housekeeper and harder still at avoiding men who want to take advantage of her. But she’s irresistibly drawn to the new clan chief, even though he’s made it plain he doesn’t want to be shackled to anyone.
And the young laird has more than romance on his mind. His investigations are stirring up an enemy. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what he wants – including Marsaili – even if that means destroying Brice’s life forever
…
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Highland-Storms-Choc-Lit-ebook/dp/B00629ZK0I
The Scarlet Kimono
Winner of The Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17
th
-century Japan – what happens when fear turns to love?
England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on his merchant ship,
her powers of endurance are stretched to their limit. Then they reach Japan and all her suffering seems worthwhile – until she is abducted by Taro Kumashiro’s warriors.
In the far north of the country, warlord Kumashiro is waiting to see the girl who he has been warned about by a seer.
When at last they meet, it’s a clash of cultures and wills, but they’re also fighting an instant attraction to each other.
With her brother desperate to find her and the jea
lous Lady Reiko equally desperate to kill her, Hannah faces the greatest adventure of her life. And Kumashiro has to choose between love and honour …
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Scarlet-Kimono-Choc-ebook/dp/B004Q9TCXC
The Gilded Fan
Sequel to
The Scarlet Kimono
How do you start a new life, leaving behind all you love?
It’s 1641, and when Midori Kumashiro, the orphaned daughter of a warlord, is told she has to leave Japan or die, she has no choice but to flee to England. Midori is trained in the arts of war, but is that enough to help her survive a journey, with a lecherous crew and an attra
ctive captain she doesn’t trust?
Having come to Nagasaki to trade, the last thing Ca
ptain Nico Noordholt wants is a female passenger, especially a beautiful one. How can he protect her from his crew when he can’t keep his own eyes off her?
During their journey, Nico and Midori form a tentative bond, but they both have secrets that can change ev
erything. When they arrive in England, a civil war is brewing, and only by standing together can they hope to survive…
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gilded-Fan-Choc-ebook/dp/B00AN9NX1G
The Silent Touch of Shadows
Winner of the 2012 Best Historical Read award from the Festival of Romance
.
What will it take to put the past to rest?
Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invit
ation to visit her family’s ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. The spiritual connection to a medieval young woman and her forbidden lover have her questioning her sanity, but Melissa is determined to solve the mystery.
Jake Precy, owner of a nearby cottage, has disturbing dreams too, but it’s not until he meets Melissa that they begin to make sense. He hires her to research his family’s history, unaware their lives are already entwined. Is the mutual attraction real or the result of ghostly interfe
rence?
A haunting love story set partly in the present and partly in fifteenth century Kent.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Touch-Shadows-Choc-ebook/dp/B008834GRY
Marry in Haste
‘I need to marry, and I need to marry at once’
When James, Viscount Demarr confides in an a
cquaintance at a ball one evening, he has no idea that the potential solution to his problems stands so close at hand …
Amelia Ravenscroft is the granddaughter of an earl and is desperate to escape her aunt’s home where she has e
ndured a life of drudgery, whilst fighting off the increasingly bold advances of her lecherous cousin. She boldly proposes a marriage of convenience.
And Amelia soon proves herself a pe
rfect fit for the role of Lady Demarr. But James has doubts and his blossoming feelings are blighted by suspicions regarding Amelia’s past.
Will they find, all too painfully, that if you marry in haste you repent at leisure?
This is a novella, available on Kindle.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marry-Haste-Choc-Lit-ebook/dp/B0094OPT0Y
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
“Once was more than enough!”
Jason Warwycke, Marquess of Wyckeham, has vowed never to wed again after his disastrous first marriage, which left him with nothing but a tarnished reputation and a rather unfortunate nickname − ‘Lord Wicked’.
That is, until he sets eyes on Ianthe Templeto
n …
Ianthe lives in the shadow of her beautiful twin si
ster, Serena, and longs to escape the “mindless entertainments” she is forced to endure in London. She soon finds herself captivated by the enigmatic Wyckeham and tempted by his promises of a new life in the idyllic English countryside …
But can Wyckeham and Ianthe overcome the malicious schemes of spiteful siblings and evil stepmothers to find wedded bliss? Or will Wyckeham discover, all too painfully, that the past has come back to bite him for a second time?
This is a novella, available on Kindle.
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